KATHLEEN HUGHES: Bad, Blonde and Beautiful

Films of the Golden Age
Issue Number 102
Fall 2020

“Villains are much more fun and interesting to play. They are often better written too. Perhaps I enjoyed the “nice girl” parts less because I was such a good girl off camera.”

She began her film career at 20th Century-Fox as a pert, eye-catching brunet starlet but came into her own at Universal as a ravishing, often lethal blonde co-star of “B” level film noir, sci-fi and costumed drama. Statuesque KATHLEEN HUGHES (1928- ) would create quite a “bad girl” stir in her most popular Universal movies enticing such male stars as Paul Henreid in FOR MEN ONLY (1952), Rock Hudson in THE GOLDEN BLADE (1953) and both Edward G. Robinson and John Forsythe in THE GLASS WEB (1953). Major 3-D publicity gave her widespread attention in her best-known film, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953), though she had mere minutes of screen time!

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